Baba & the Rabbis & the Matriarchs

Baba and the Rabbis

Baba and a group of Rabbis at Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, 1967.

Third from Esther is Rabbi Epstein from the Yeshiva Meah Shearim.
Fourth from Esther (middle) is Yosef La'ab Zusman, Kabbalist and Esther's nephew.

Baba and the Matriarchs

Baba at Kever Rachel - Rachel's Tomb, 1967.

Whenever Esther visited Israel she would also visit "Kever Rachel" - Rachel's Tomb, one of the Hebrew matriarchs from the Old Testament. As a young girl in Jerusalem she used to visit Rachel's Tomb, it had special meaning for her.

Trellice - Parocheth (cover) for Rachel's tomb, 1967.

In 1967 she purchased and donated a trellice or parocheth - ritual ark curtain - for the Holy Ark at Rachel's tomb. Quoted from one of her Banquet Dinner Souvenir Journals - "This is the picture of the POROCHOS we have made on the Tomb of our Mother Rachel."

Oron HaKodosh for Rachel's Tomb.

Quoted from one of her Banquet Dinner Souvenir Journals - "We have had the great Zchoos to make the ORON HAKODOSH at the Tomb of our MOTHER RACHEL."

Baba visits Sarah's Tomb, 1967.

Esther Feigel visited Sarah's Tomb, and I know that Sarah was infertile till a late age, and is symbolic of problems bearing children. My grandmother had already buried 3 of her 6 children by the time she went to Israel in 1949, and could identify with the Hebrew matriarchs and their challenges.

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Last modified July 2007.